craintive
\kʁɛ̃.tiv\
The verdict
“craintive” is uncommon French (frequency #56,524 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,524
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de méticuleuse (papillon).
Corpus desk
Index FR-craintive · craintive · French
craintive · rank #56,524 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,524
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH craignos
Nearest frequency peer: craignos (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « craintive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coûta
coûta
43,479 corpus weight
- craignos
craignos
43,478 corpus weight
- craintive
craintive
43,477 corpus weight
- cramoisi
cramoisi
43,476 corpus weight
- critiquez
critiquez
43,475 corpus weight
- croupier
croupier
43,474 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « craintive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | craintive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛ̃.tiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « craintive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
craintive is uncommon French at frequency #56,524 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɛ̃.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de méticuleuse (papillon).".
craintive doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is craintive, spelled C-R-A-I-N-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de méticuleuse (papillon).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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